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Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.

Lauren DeStefano

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 39
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Connecticut
United States
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Broken
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It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.
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It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.
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There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage--a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that my life, laid out so neatly like the clothes Deirdre left on my divan, was no longer my own.
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I want to make a world more magical than my own. I don't care if it makes sense, I don't care if it's ridiculed or if, rather than a neat round planet that goes around forever, it ends with a cliff that falls off into nothing. I want to have my eyes wide open, and I want to see this room and at the same time, not this room.
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Good night, sweetheart, he says. Good bye, sweetheart, I say. And it's so casual, so innocent that he doesn't suspect a thing.
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It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.
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You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.
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Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.
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When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.
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